Erik Peterson is senior vice president at CSIS, where he is director of the Global Strategy Institute. As director, he heads the "Seven Revolutions Initiative," an internationally recognized effort to identify and project global trends to the year 2025. Peterson serves on several boards, including that of the Center for Global Business Studies at Pennsylvania State University. He was a fellow of the World Economic Forum and served at its Global Risk Network. He currently advises the U.S. State Department's Advisory Committee on Transformational Diplomacy and the Center for Disease Control's Advisory Committee on Globalization. The author of several publications, he is completing another book on global strategic trends and their effects on governance structures in societies across the world.

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